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In Legal matters: THE PARAGRAPH REGARDING CLASSMATES.COM IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE AND SHOULD BE DELETED PERMANENTLY. There are numerous public sources that inaccurately state that MyLife was formerly named Classmates.com, or that MyLife is a rebranded version of Classmates.com. Those statements are absolutely false. Classmates.com is a completely separate website, owned by a completely separate company. MyLife has no ownership interest in Classmates, has never had any control over the Classmates.com website, and is not responsible in any way for Classmate's business practices or legal issues. The articles referenced in this Wikipedia paragraph are patently INCORRECT with regard to any statements they make concerning Classmates.com.
Wikipedia's very OWN page regarding Classmates.com states correctly their ownership history (quoted below) /info/en/?search=Classmates.com United Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: UNTD) acquired Classmates Online in 2004[7] and owned and operated the company as part of its Classmates Media Corporation subsidiary[8] until 2015. In August 2015, Classmates was acquired from United Online by PeopleConnect Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, LLC, for $30 million.[12] Classmates is now operated as a division of PeopleConnect, which also owns Intelius. 76.80.113.66 ( talk) 18:14, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
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The article is incorrect that the only way to remove the content is to pay for the service. Sending an email or calling will also remove the information (I just did it and it worked).
Perhaps change to: "Public pages can be edited or removed if users register and pay for its paid service or by email/phone request without paying." Medium Article" -- 173.16.221.135 ( talk) 19:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
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U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled September 6, 2019, 2019 class action lawsuit claiming MyLife.com is a scam can move ahead.
The MyLife.com class action lawsuit accuses company behind Classmates.com of preying on new victims by rebranding itself as MyLife.com after losing 2018 class action lawsuit. Classmates.com was sued in 2008 for defrauding consumers by using spam emails that falsely stated past acquaintances were purportedly trying to contact them, and subsequently charging subscribers a user fee to learn no one was trying to contact them at all.
Classmates.com settled the class action lawsuit last year for $9.5 million, but the people behind Classmates.com have continued the scam under the name MyLife.com, says the class action lawsuit.
According to the MyLife class action lawsuit, MyLife attracts subscribers by sending mass email solicitations saying that “someone” is searching for them, and then charging subscribers a fee to show an ultimately bogus list of names. The MyLife scam class action lawsuit also accuses the social networking site of hacking into subscribers’ computers and spamming contacts in their email address books with more solicitations.
https://www.courthousenews.com/web-scam-reborn-as-mylife-com-class-says/ JoeLevene 17:04, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
@ Barkeep: Your edit here [1] reintroduces an incorrect BBB rating. Before you hastily revert people, please check the edits to determine if important factual corrections were made. The BBB rating paragraph should be either changed to a range of scores or removed entirely, because their rating changes so frequently that it will just as frequently be outdated here. ♟♙ ( talk) 17:56, 3 November 2020 (UTC)